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I have a sql command I want to use to connect to my online database
mysql -h your_ddbb_server_ip -u your_user
I’ve installed MySQL installer 5.5 and ran the program.
After installing I tried running the command from both command prompt and a program called ‘MySQL 5.5 Command Line Client’.
Neither program responded to the command.
How and where do I run this?
From a command prompt (
cmd.exe)be sure you have the mysql bin folder in the path (the installer prompts for that) so you can just type
mysql.exe(or justmysql).Otherwise you have to navigate to the MySql bin folder (in my case that’s
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\binThis command will launch an interactive shell. If you just want to execute a command you have to specify the
-e argument